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Australia will be defending its World Cup title when the women cricketers line up against the West Indies. This will be a replay of the 2013 World Cup final. The Aussies are the clear favourites after proving their credentials in warm-ups and they have a line-up that is the envy of the women’s cricket world….

Still going strong at age 35, Roger Federer demolished Alexander Zverev 6 – 1, 6 – 3 to record his ninth Halle Open title. After winning the 2017 Australian Open for his 18th Grand Slam victory, Federer skipped the clay court season in order to conserve his energy on the surface that has thwarted him…

The Melbourne Storm are apparently victims of their own success. Having a club well stocked with proficient players, so proficient in fact that the Storm heads the pack in the 2017 Telstra NRL Premiership competition, has it downsides. One of those downsides is that by supplying so many players to the State of Origin series,…

Along with Gary Ablett himself, his former coach Mark Thompson, who led the Cats to premierships in 2007 and 2009, would like to see Ablett finish his career in Geelong. Ablett is just one game shy of the 300-game milestone, which he will realise when the Cats play the St. Kilda Saints in round 14….

The AFL held its annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony recently. It was held at Adelaide, despite the HOF officially being located at the National Sports Museum at the MCG, but we think that the policy of moving the ceremony around is a good one. In the U.S., where the NFL has its Hall of…

Prestige is all well and good, but 2017 U.S. Open winner Brooks Koepka has more than two million reasons to savour his victory. True, he had to work four days to earn that $2 million, a paltry $500,000 per day. Compare that to say, Makybe Diva’s ability to win $3.5 million for just over three…

It is three consecutive at the 24 Hours Le Mans race for Porsche, thanks to the dramatic efforts of veteran German driver Timo Bernhard. It was nearly an upset of epic proportions, as both Porsche and Toyota suffered various mishaps that almost handed the race to a French teenager name Thomas Laurent, the driver for…

We may have been premature, as may he himself have been, when we reported that Cooper Cronk would make the 2017 Telstra NRL Premiership competition the last of his storied career. Cronk is moving to Sydney at season’s end to be with his fiancé, and it would seem that commuting to play with the Melbourne…

There had to be some consequences to some of golf’s biggest bombers turning par fives into driver- short iron holes. Those consequences have reared their head, although we stop short of saying said head is ugly, at Erin Hills Wisconsin, site of the 2017 U.S. Open, where the USGA has rolled out the longest-ever layout…

Drive for show, putt for dough, goes the saying on the PGA Tour. Ahead of this week’s second Major of the season, the U.S. Open at Erin Hills in Wisconsin will feature a typical U.S. Open layout that rewards accuracy off the tee, severely punishes errant tee shots and requires a deft putting touch on…